Skin Communicates With the Liver
Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The discovery has surprised the scientists,...
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Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes
Using bacterial-cellulose, Lee aims to address pressing ecological and sustainability issues around fashion and beyond. A Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of...
Surviving Ovarian Cancer: Rutgers Scientists Attack Drug Resistant Cancer Cells
Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable and increase survival rates for...
Synthetic RNAs designed to fight cancer
In search of better cancer treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have designed synthetic molecules that combine the advantages of...
Research Identifies Promising Tool for Cardiac Stem Cell Grafting
New research by University of Vermont Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Jeffrey Spees, and colleagues has identified a new tool that could help facilitate future...
ICABB 2014 – 2014 International Conference on Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering
The aim objective of the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering (ICABB 2014) is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians...
Neural Workaround Makes for More Practical Bionic Limbs
The secret to building brain-controlled prostheses may be to ignore the brain entirely.In the past several years scientists have delivered a slew of advances in...
‘Designer Sperm’ Inserts Custom Genes Into Offspring
Get ready: The "new genetics" promises to change faulty genes of future generations by introducing new, functioning genes using "designer sperm." A new research report...
‘Bio-pen’ will allow surgeons to draw new bone inside patients
A hand-held ''bio pen'' developed in Wollongong will allow surgeons to draw regenerating bone material directly on to the body. The development enables customised implants...
Estrogen: Not Just Produced by Ovaries
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen -- a discovery that may lead to a better...
Researchers block replication of AIDS virus
A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Spanish universities and research centres, among which is the University of Valencia, has managed to design small synthetic molecules...
Male and female brains wired differently
A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found striking differences in the neural...
Human Stem Cells Converted to Functional Lung Cells
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells. The advance, reported by Columbia University Medical...
Mice can ‘warn’ sons, grandsons of dangers via sperm
Lab mice trained to fear a particular smell can transfer the impulse to their unborn sons and grandsons through a mechanism in their sperm, a...
Pills of the future: nanoparticles
Drugs delivered by nanoparticles hold promise for targeted treatment of many diseases, including cancer. However, the particles have to be injected into patients, which has...
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